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"Mudder". 24" x 36" Watercolor on Watercolor Paper.

This is a portrait of an Amish boy with his mother. "Mudder" is Low German for "Mother", and Low German is the dialect that these people speak.

My inspiration has come from several areas. First, I grew up in a part of Missouri that was heavily populated by Amish and Mennonite families, and I now live in an area in Kansas that is also populated by these families. I was also inspired by the cultural links these people share with my own family.

Although my family was not of Anabaptist (they were originally Lutheran), I have discoverd that it does share some similar European roots. My paternal grandfather's family came over from the Hamburg area of Northern Germany where Low German was the common language, and where a branch of the Amish/Mennonite families also originate. His family retained a great deal of the cultural traditions and work ethics, including the language, through his generation. He spoke fluent...

Described as a “Renaissance Woman”, Laurie E. Tietjen possesses a wide range of talents, abilities, and interests: a licensed educator, Certified Public Accountant, business consultant, jazz musician, and visual artist. It is her talent in the visual arts that rises above the rest to provide that eternal footprint to be left on the world’s stage. Many works from art history have captured her eye, but her heart has been captured by the works of the Masters of Traditional Realism, such as Andrew Wyeth, Norman Rockwell, John Singer Sargent, and Rembrandt, as well as the Photorealists, such as Ralph Goings. Her style has been described as thoughtful and almost meditative. It is tight and precise, and not surprisingly reminiscent of...